Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. [29], Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 1988 Page: 3 of 8
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Thursday July 21 19S8 PORTLAND NEWS PAGE 3
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Summer Readers Awarded
At Library Ceremony
Mr and ttn NWI $. Avila of Gregory announce lino engagement and
approaching marriage ol Ihoir daughter, Belinda Olivia lo Robert
Polrich Sonchoi, son ol Mr and Mr! Noel Stnchei 01 McAllen. The
couple will be married Saturday. Sept J«, IMS o* Immaculate Concep
lion Church, Gregory The bride to be ts o leito graduate ot Gregory
Portland High School and a lets graduato of University of Texas at
Austin She is employed as Pharmacist at Methodist Hospital in San
Antonio. The prospective groom is o 1000 graduate of McAllen High
School end o logs graduate ot University of Texas at Austin He is
presently employed as Pharmacistat Kroger! ot San Antonie
Closing ceremonies were held last
Thursday for the !9*8 Summer
Reading Program, Trailblazers
and Stargazers,” at the Bell/Whit
tington Public Library.
Students came dressed as their
favorite character in history or as a
robot, and a contest teas held to pick
the best costume Judges were on
hand to present swsrds lor this con-
test and prior competitions lor
designing a bookmark and creative
inventions
Winners of the biokmark contest
were Wilma Rodrigues, first.
Brande Flames, second, and Robert
Lee Vera, third The Creative Inven
lion contest winners were Clayton
Hall, first; Tiffany Felton, second
and Elisabeth Whitaker, third. First
jlace in the Historical Dress contest
went to Stephanie laaano, second to
3eter Douglass and third to Jessica
lohnson.
Students who had read 10 or morr
looks earned a reading certificate, a
■ersocial pan pizza from Pizza Hut
md a Frosty from Wendy 's. They
Jso qualified to participate in a
drawing for other prizes Among the
prize donors were Fnends of the
library, KMart, Mr Gatti's and
Winn's.
Those who qualified for reading
certificates were Missy Gonzalez
Tiffany Felton, Karey Haen, Jamie
Bauman, B.J White, Casey Avila,
Christina lies, Chad Gibson, Clayton
Hall. Peter Douglas. Susie Ortas.
Lori Autry , Amanda Acevedo, Amy
Acevedo, i one He Harris, Beth
Elkins, Amanda Harvey, Jennifer
McCoy, Wilma Rodriguez, Carrie
Marks, Maria Avila, Joseph Avila,
John Cole. Same Cole. Michelle Sto-
janik, Robert lee Vera, Brande
Fla Inez, Kimberly Gonzalez. Musty
Dawn West, Chansaa Harrel, Belin-
da Stojanik, Kim Garcia. Carly Gar-
cia. Eulalia Avila and Melodie
Marin
Those who also qualified for
reading certificates were Kera
l-ara. Javier Zambrano, Stephanie
Sanders, Jennifer Sanders,
Stephanie Harris, Felicia Hinojosa.
Dawn l-almansingh, Cheryl Cannon,
Tnaha Cannon, leah Frazier, Ben
Stubbs, Michael Stubbs. Geoffrey
Barnard, Elizabeth Whitaker, Nicki
Wittsche. Danae Allison, Becky
Alvord, A con Alvord, Ashli Arvin.
Ethm Andn, Bryan Coronada.
Teresa Coronada, Chart! Alsbury,
Kelly Freeman, Jeff Moses, Jessica
Johnson. Nicole Haen, Michelle
Costilla, Debbie Canales, lisa
Rodrigue; i-aura Canales, Jason
Garcia, Jsy Garcia, Adrtanna Gar-
cia and Allison Calk
Following the Awards ceremony,
refreshments were served by the
Friends of the library
The six week reading program
was sponsored jointly by the Texas
State library, Fnends of the
Portland l ibrary and the Bell/Whit-
tington Pubbc Library
CREATIVE INVENTION WINNERS In the "Traifblazers A
Stargazers" summer reading contest, the winners are (lelti Clayton
Hall, first; and Elizabeth Whitaker, third Not pictured is second
place winner Tiffany Felfon
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COSTUME WINNERS Winners in Portland % i«M Summer Reading
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PAC To Sponsor Ice Cream Social
Portland Association of Congrega-
tions i PAC > is sponsoring a Fifth
Sunday icecream social on Sunday.
July 31 at First Christian Church.
Scooping will begin at 6 p.m.
followed by an ecumenical worship
service at 7 p.m Participating chur-
ches will also be providing plenty of
special music.
If you d like to take part, call your
church office by Monday, July 25, so
there will will be plenty of icecream
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For more information about the
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Maleks Celebrate
25th Anniversary
Frank anil Sue Malek are
celebrating their 25th wedding an-
niversary The couple were married
on July 19th. 19S3 at St Theresa
Cathohc Church in Corpus Christi
Through the years they raised four
daughters. Trudy Williams of
Portland. Theresa Morehouse of
Corpus Christi. Tracy and Tammy
Malek also of Portland. They recent-
ly were biessed with their first
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Neill, Lee Ann. Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. [29], Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 1988, newspaper, July 21, 1988; Portland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth871366/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bell/Whittington Public Library.